When you relax your body and mind, you trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, the system in your body that tells your brain to relax, unwind, and stop stressing. The more you relax, the less cortisol (stress hormone) you secrete, therefore the faster your metabolism works, promoting fat loss. Here are…
12 Ways to help yourself be intrinsically happy
True happiness comes from finding peace and contentedness within yourself. Here are 12 ways you can improve these for yourself and find your happiness. 1. Embrace change instead of fearing it, acknowledging that it is part of the evolution of life. Learn to become more adaptable, looking for the solution…
7 Tips to Help Keep you Smiling During the World’s Longest Lock Down
1. Focus on the things that you can control and the things you can influence change over, and accept the things you cannot change. It helps you feel more empowered and less anxious. 2. Spend at least 10 minutes per day outside, especially when it is a bright sunny day….
10 Simple Strategies to Help You Get More out of Your Training
1. Always mobilise, stretch and activate before training. This will loosen up tight muscle and the fascia around the muscles, stretch out ligaments and tendons, increase blood flow, and activate the right muscles for the training you are about to perform. Activating the right muscles means you will have the…
What should you do during ‘those times’?
There will be times where you stand in darkness and find peace in it. There will be times when you feel there is no hope, and there is no way out, like the situation will never end. Nothing bad lasts forever. These are the times, you draw on your inner…
